palm up hand: medium-light skin tone
Unicode: 1FAF4 1F3FC
Description
An emoji depicting a person, specifically a man, with medium-light skin tone (skin tone modifier F3FC). This is generally part of a sequence to create family or couple emojis.
Group:
People & Body > hand-fingers-open
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral, as it represents a person with a specific skin tone. The emotional context depends on the surrounding emojis or text.
Backstory
The base 'Man' emoji (👨) was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010). The skin tone modifiers (like 🏼 for medium-light skin tone) were introduced later with Unicode 8.0 (2015) to allow for greater diversity and representation in human-depicting emojis. This specific sequence (👨🏼) allows users to select the skin tone for the man emoji.
Usage Examples
- To represent a man with medium-light skin tone in a general context: "The man on the street was helping an old lady. 👨🏼"
- As part of a family emoji: "My family is growing! 👨🏼👩🏻👧🏼"
- To describe someone: "He's a great example of a supportive father 👨🏼"
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Used to represent a man with a specific skin tone in diverse contexts, often in multi-person or family emojis.
East Asian culture:
Similar usage to Western culture; represents a male individual with a specific skin tone for general depiction.